Quotes for All
One of the things that’s interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors. Gabe Newell
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. Ezra Taft Benson
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. Ezra Pound
Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they’re very easy to trace; they’re very easy to tap. Evgeny Morozov
A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change. Evan Esar
It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, … In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power. Esther Dyson
[A living organism] … feeds upon negative entropy … Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment. Erwin Schrodinger
From the Latin word imponere, base of the obsolete English impone and translated as impress in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms imponator (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the imponator effect) and imponade (that goo that fills you as you get impressed with something – from marmelade, … Read more
They don’t make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don’t want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it’s not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up … Read more
You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It’s very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don’t have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express … Read more